Despatch from the Crimean war 1855.

Destruction & Burning in Sweaborg [=headline]. Newcastle, J. Quinn, (1855).
Broadside. 485 x 178 mm (within passepartout). Small losses of paper in left hand corners. Slightly worn and darkened in center fold. Framed, with glass, frame measures 585 x 275 mm. One of the units from the British expedition to the Baltic reported at Newcastle for replenishment, carrying news of the attack on Sveaborg (Suomenlinna), then under Russian command. The broadside also contains news from the other theaters of the Crimean war from different sources.